Thank you for the update. I last stayed in Maine in 1990 while on business. It was scary poor then. The front page of the Presque Isle newspaper one day had a picture of a falling-down shack along with the pix of two brothers who looking like Larry and Daryl from the old Bob Newhart show. They had killed their mother and then hid the pieces in the walls. The smell attracted attention and, well, you can guess the rest. I did not know the new governor had corrected some of the state’s worst Liberal abuses. Good news. But it has more people on welfare now than have work. Rich Liberals are a disease, like hookworm.
I was new to Maine in 1990. Unfortunately, the state is still relatively poor, especially in the rural areas, which is a majority of the state.
I had to laugh at the Larry, Daryl and Daryl comment....I’ve seen, and have known, many people here who resemble them.
I don’t recall the murder case you mentioned from 1990, but we’ve had a few bizarre murder cases over the years, in spite of the fact that the overall violent crime rate in Maine is very low.
When I lived in southern California years ago, bank robberies were so common they seldom, if ever, made the local news. Here in Maine, bank robberies are big news, because they are rather rare.
It’s true, more people in Maine are on welfare than ever before. It’s a problem not only for Maine but for the entire country. To quote Margaret Thatcher, “Socialism only works until you run out of other people’s money.”